Galvanic battery



UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LYMAN D; MOINTOSH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GALVANIC BATTERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,096, dated September 12, 1882.

Application filed June 10, 1882.

'To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LYMAN D. MoINrosn, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Galvanic Batteries, of which the following is a full description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a top or plan view; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section on line a: of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a vertical cross-section on line 3/ y of Fig. 1.

A patenthas heretofore been granted me, hearing date November 29, 1881, No. 250,155, for a receptacle for the plates of a galvanic battery when in use, and a drip-cup to receive the plates, when removed from the batterycup, both cups being made of vulcanized iudia-rubber or other suitable material, and the battery-cup being divided into cells or compartments bypartitions, the body of the receptacle and the partitions beingcast or otherwise formed in a single piece, and the dripcup being also cast or formed in a single piece without the partitions, such cups being combined with a plate or cover, to which the battery-plates are secured, and by means of which both receptacles can be closed by the same cover. This construction attained the object for which it was intended, enabling the plates to be removed from the cell-cup and placed in a drip-cup; but in practice, in changing from one cup to another, the drip is liable to be deposited on the upper edge of thereceptacles and enter between-the receptacles and be lost or wasted, and in handling the battery more or less wastage of the fluid occurs by reason of its droppingfrom the battery-plates in transferring them, and thence passing between the two receptacles.

The object of this invention is to prevent wastage of the fluid in transferring the plates, and also to make the receptacles more compact and easy of removal when it is desired to remove them from the inclosing case oi box for cleaning or other purposes; and its nature consists in providing a receptacle for the plates when in use, having separate cells or compartments for the respective plates and a drip-cup or receptacle for the plates when outof use,

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all cast or otherwise formed from a single piece of vulcanized rubber or other suitable material, as hereinafter more specifically set forth.

In the drawings, A represents the section or division constituting the receptacle for the battery-fluid and the plates when in use; B, the section or division constituting the receptacle or cup for the battery-plates when out of use; 0, the wall or partition dividing or separating the two receptacles A B; a, the cells or compartments of the receptacle or cup A; a, the division or partition plates dividing the receptacle or cup A into the cells or compartments a; b, the compartment of the receptacle or cup B.

The receptacles or cups A B, with their respective compartments a and b and the division plates 0 and a, are cast or otherwise formed in a single piece, and may be cast or formed from vulcanized rubber or other suitable material possessing the requisite qualities for a receptacle to contain the batteryfluid and be non-acting thereon and non-afcles is to be adapted to the number and size of the battery-plates, as many compartments fall thereon in transferring the plates from one receptacle to the other will return to one or the other of the receptacles and be thereby saved; and it will also be seen that the combined receptacle produced is very strong, and also very compact, a single division-plate 0 being used to separate one receptacle from the other, which plate furnishes a support for both receptacles and increases the strength.

This construction produces a combined receptacle which is well adapted for the purposes for which it is intended, and which'possesses the features of simplicity, compactness, and strength, and by the use of which no wastage of the fluid will occur in transferring the the battery-fluid and the battery-plates, and a battery-plates.

compartment, 1), in the section or division B The battery-plates are to bc attached to a I to receive the battery-plates when removed cover similar in construction to the one shown from the fluid, and the partition 0, all formed and described in my said former patent, the fromasinglepieceofvulcanized rubberorother cover being so formed that it will close both material, substantially as and for the purpose receptacles when in position, no matter in specified. which receptacle the plates may be located. I

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure LYM AN D. MCINTOSH.

by Letters Patent, is Witnesses:

A receptacle, A B, having compartments or ALBERT H. ADAMS, cells a in the section or division A to receive 0. W. BOND. 

